2.Personification allows the reader to
sense more of the emotion the poet tries to create and share.

3.Personification encourages us to view our
surroundings from a fresh perspective.

2.“Winter Trees” by William Carlos Williams

ØDirections: Circle the words and phrases that give the
trees human qualities.

Winter Trees

All the complicated details

of the attiring
and

the disattiring
are completed!

A liquid moon

moves gently among

the long branches.

Thus having prepared their buds

against a sure winter

the wise
trees

stand sleeping in the cold.

Question: HOW does
Williams personify the trees?

3.Examine how John Steinbeck uses
personification in his short story "Flight" to describe "the
wild coast" south of Monterey, California.

ØCircle the words and phrases personifying the wild coast.

1.The farm buildings huddled like the clinging aphids on the
mountain skirts,crouched low to the
ground as though the wind might blow them into the sea….

2.Five-fingered ferns hung over the water and dropped spray from their fingertips….

3.The high mountain wind coasted sighing through the pass
and whistled on the
edges of the big blocks of broken granite….

4.A scar of green grass cut across the flat. And
behind the flat another mountain rose, desolate with dead rocks and starving little black bushes….

5.Gradually the sharp snaggled edge of the ridge
stood out above them, rotten
granite tortured
and eaten by the
winds of time. Pepe had dropped his reins on the horn, leaving direction to the
horse. The brush grabbed
at his legs in the dark until one knee of his jeans was ripped.

ØAs Steinbeck demonstrates, an important
function of personification in literature is to bring the inanimate world to
life.

Revision Workshop Time

Sense Poem (page 66)

1.Read
the directions, and discuss the models.

2.Get
a copy of the rubric, and review it with me.
What are you attempting to perfect in the final draft?

3.Review
your peer conference comments.

4.Review
my comments.

5.Create
a revised, final draft of the Sense Poem.

6.Print
a final copy, and use it to fill out the rubric carefully.

7.Thoughtfully
complete the rubric.

Today:

Turn in all items to your file cabinet folder,
please. Thanks!

Sense Poem Revision Turn-In Order

(to your folder in the file cabinet)

ØTop: Rubric

ØBottom: Final Draft

Homework

Fifty-Word Stories—printed out and turned in
as it says on your handout (not shared with me).

Due
Friday: Diction Practice = Free Rice

ØReminder #1: Make
SURE you click on the link on my blog for your class, and make sure that your
class group is showing in the right corner of your screen when you play. Otherwise, I cannot see your grains, and you
will not receive any points.

ØReminder #2: Do
not restart at Level 1 every time you play.
Start at the level you stopped at yesterday.

ØDUE DATE: 25,000 grains by classtime Friday

ØEveryone should play for the rest of the block. You will be at 25,000 by Friday! J